The rules we follow
We mirror official filings.
What you see is what was filed with the government — a campaign's FEC reports, a roll-call vote — shown as filed, not reworded. Filings get amended, so "as filed" is not the same as "guaranteed true": we show the record as it stood on the date we retrieved it, and that date is always on the tag.
When we do math, we use official categories.
Some figures are sums — total raised, total spent, the "where the money comes from" breakdown. We only add up numbers the source itself reports, using the FEC's own categories and codes. We never sort a candidate's money into labels we invented, and we don't merge donors or tag them by industry — that would mean guessing.
We don't guess.
When there is no official record of something, we say exactly that — "no record on file" — instead of leaving a blank or filling the gap with an estimate. And if a figure can't carry its source and date, it doesn't go on the site.
The sources
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
LiveCampaign money: every dollar a federal campaign reports raising and spending — and where it came from — as filed with the FEC.
Congress.gov
Not yet liveVotes and bills: the official record of Congress — how a member voted, and the bills they sponsored. Profiles don't show this yet; the marker flips when it's live.
U.S. Census Bureau
LiveYour district: the Census Bureau's geocoder, which matches your address to your congressional district.
Every figure on this site carries a small tag naming its source and the date we retrieved it. Records change; the tag tells you exactly how fresh ours is. When the tag is a link, it opens the official record it came from, so you can check us.
We use official sources only. Nothing here is scraped from third-party sites or bought from commercial data vendors.
What we'll never do
Tell you how to vote.
No scores, no ratings, no rankings, no endorsements. Every candidate gets the same format and the same visual weight. We put what a candidate says next to what the record shows — and leave the judgment with you.
Paint anyone red or blue.
Party affiliation is shown as filed, in words. We never use color as a political signal.
Turn contributor data into a mailing list.
Federal law says contributor information from FEC reports may not be used to solicit donations or for commercial purposes. We follow that rule and build it in. Money from individual donors appears on this site only as totals — never as named people. When a contributor is named, it's a political committee, named as it appears in the filing. If individual contributor names ever appear here, they will carry city and state only — never street addresses. And we build no export, no list-making, and no "contact these donors" features. That's why every page showing contributor data carries this notice: "Contributor data is shown for voter information only — not for solicitation or commercial use."
What happens to your address
Your address is used once to find your district, then discarded — we never store it.
Here's the whole trip: you type your address, it goes to our server, and our server asks the U.S. Census Bureau's geocoder which congressional district contains it. Your district is the only thing that comes back. On our side, the address is gone the moment the lookup ends — we never store it, never log it, never use it for anything else. The Census Bureau processes the lookup under its own federal confidentiality rules.
If you save a lookup, it is saved on your device only and never leaves it — we can't see your saved lookups. There are no accounts on this site.
What we cover so far
We'd rather show you a short honest list than a long padded one.
Today this site covers federal races, starting with Michigan, for the November 3, 2026 general election. Candidate profiles currently show who a candidate is and how their campaign is funded; the votes-and-bills and positions sections are still being built. More states appear as their official data lands — never before.
The demo pages use clearly labeled sample data to show how the product works — nothing in the demo is a real filing.
One email at launch if you want it — get notified as coverage grows.